Her sobering up is also a sign that he should leave. There are too many things on the tip of his tongue that shouldn't be said until he's had time to analyze whether they should be said at all, and her feline companion is now perched on the bed, glaring at him disapprovingly in a manner he's certain she doesn't know is reminiscent of before.

Of long, long ago.

"Drink more water and sleep," he tells her, patting her awkwardly on the arm as he takes a step back and climbs back up onto the windowsill. "And watch out for the punch."

And then he's gone, darting off in the direction of his apartment so he can discard the rented tuxedo he stuffed himself into (since he didn't attend the ball as Tuxedo Kamen, not technically) and stand in the shower with cold water beating down on him as he tries to get his thoughts to properly realign. Remembering his past life is a revelation like no other, and when he gives his name as 'Endymion' at Starbucks the next morning, he decides that going out right now isn't the best of ideas.

So he feigns being sick for the first time in his life and skips a week's worth of classes. He does the work from home, turning in assignments virtually so he doesn't fall behind, taking time to adjust to his new reality.

By the time he finally leaves his apartment and heads to the game center to see if the princess is there see Motoki, he knows why he's never been sick. He knows why he's always been able to sense lingering danger. Why he had those dreams of Princess Serenity, but not why he was reincarnated alongside the girl he was forbidden to see and her court.